The chaplain who has applied for a cow to be his best man

NEW YORK (AP)--Adam Moore was driving once 500 miles only to eat a burrito in a Chipotle he had never been to .alan Klein is working on a smartphone app to help fellow enthusiasts to hunt down the transient McRib sandwich.And Ben Skelton made an unusual choice for best man in his upcoming marriage: Chick-fil-A cow. "" I said my best man that he is going to be my best man enemy, "said Skelton, assistant of 28-year-old chaplain in the Air National Guard. "I just have not he said that he was beaten off by a cow."Call fanaticism or simply the dedication, but it's the type of ultra-enthusiastic fans who aspires each restaurant. Groupies restaurant have always been around, but they are more valuable at a time where the economy requires the consumer to choose carefully when they eat outside, and a few post online can inform the opinions of thousands. Although there are no statistics on these known fanatics or agreement on who is considered to be one, restaurant chains are realizing that influencing a few fans hyper excited with free meals and T-shirts can sometimes be more effective - and much less expensive - that an advertising campaign grand. "" You really can not buy advertising like that ", said Chris Arnold, spokesman Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., affectionately referring"lunatic client"are things like dress as burritos to score free meals to the Colorado-based chain. He added that the company is trying to cultivate "" loyalty and even, in extreme cases, evangelism. ""Fast food has become the Gospel for many. About 23% of Americans eat fast food at least 20 times per month, according to Jeff Davis Sandelman & Associates, and another 20% engaged 12 in 19 times per month. But a few restaurants inspired by the dedication of worship. These are generally one or two major products or they were able to create an aura of scarcity.This is why ubiquitous McDonalds typically sells its pork sandwich, the McRib, only a few markets at a time. Last year, when McDonald of the briefly available the McRib at all U.S. locations, he said that "obscure availability", as well as barbecue sauce, led by customers "to perform extraordinary feats" for a taste of the sandwich. McDonald Corp., said the McRib has helped sales of fuel November, but he declined to give details.Perhaps person who knows better than Alan Klein, 29-year-old meteorologist in the Minneapolis area. It would never be his path for a Big Mac, which are each McDonalds Tower. But he likes the McRib because it is difficult to obtain. He has even created a Web site, the McRib Locator, for fans of colleagues could signal the presence of. "It is the lure,"said Klein, whose enthusiasm for the pork sandwich began when he was a child, growing into a family of hog." "If she is around, you never know when he returns."His website is a labor of love that is difficult to police. For accuracy sake, check marks indicate that someone has sent a receipt proving their purchase of McRib. But Klein warns on the Web site, "please call confirm the McRib is available before making any long to buy a".According to the index of the McRib sandwich is currently sold in the regions of the Canada, but Klein does not have a passport. "If someone made a trip across the border, we definitely would be interested in them providing one,"said Klein, whose wife, Kimberly, is also a fan. "Some groupies restaurant are ready to go very far for the object of their affection. Take Moore, Chipotle fan. He had the idea of visiting all 71 restaurants in Colorado by eating lunch with his sister, of course, Chipotle.It took almost three years. In the end, Moore had connected 3,839 miles on his BMW in 1987 and spent $528 on burrito bowls. "" "There would be periods of lethargy, he said," and then the periods of "OK, let's get this done." "Moore, 25, sharing his time between Denver and Lake Placid, New York, where he trains to Olympic skeleton team 2014. He had hoped that chipotle would breakfast with founder Steve Ells when he has completed his quest, but the restaurant sent the Director of relations with the customer instead. "Steve calendar is very, very busy and as he likes to meet major customers, it has many demands on his time, said Arnold, Chipotle .chick-fil-A spokesman, a chain based in Atlanta with a large presence in the South, has a settlement together for how fans of super rewards.Whenever it opens a new restaurant, the first 100 customers get 52 coupons for free meals. Fans usually have 24 hours in advance online at the cut _ and sometimes even that is not enough.The restaurant turns waiting overnight in part in the parking lot, with the hula hoop, karaoke competition and a lot of chicken. The line checks to ensure that people leave and distributes bracelets to ensure that they do split shifts. Sometimes Dan Cathy, President and Chief Executive Officer, according to Chick-fil-A pyjama pants. "" There is no better way to know your customers, "said 82-year-old Mark Baldwin.John Ruck, a retired spokesperson at St. Petersburg, Florida, tripped road to Chick-fil-A 48, openings _ not for the coupons, but for the camaraderie. He went to his first in January 2006, while mourning the recent death of his wife and found the therapeutic.He said, that it is not mind sleeping in parking lots, as it provides a comfortable armchair. The only time that he suffers where is during the karaoke. "I have never been subjected to this torture for 52 meals," he said with a laugh.Still, Ruck plans to incessant in "longer than the good Lord me" and compares the gatherings of parking at a family reunion where he sees friends openings is met. "." Last year, he led more than 1,000 miles round-trip for an opening in Louisiana, and then turn around and was once more the following week.Ruck is so delighted by what he has decided to make Chick-fil-A is part of the memory of his wife. A few years he had their alliances in a ring. When the jeweler asked him if he wanted a badge, it it was stamped with the logo of Chick-fil-A. Although his wife, Joanne, never slept in a parking lot Chick-fil-A, chicken of the chain "was the only place where it would leave the grandchildren to eat when she took them to the shopping centre".Skelton, who will stand next to the Chick-fil-A cow to his marriage, certainly understands the desire to marry its rates of restaurant preferred to the love of his life. Managers at a Chick-fil-A in Concord, N.C., will give his best bovine man, are also enthusiastic Skelton said. Conveniently, Chick-fil-A already a tuxedo to cow, which he designed last year some of marketing programmes in bride of the Oscars.Skelton, Heather Harmon, said that it was too onboard. "I am more than OK with it, I am super excited," said Harmon, a preschool teacher for 26 years. "We had worked very hard to put lots of personal touches in this marriage." We wanted it is stuffy. ?